A US Mass Com­mu­ni­ca­tion spe­cial­ist’s ra­dio an­nounce­ment has con­firmed that the radar in­stalled by the US mil­i­tary forces in Trinidad and To­ba­go is in­deed an AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR radar - and that of­fi­cials say “it can be used in US con­flict with Venezuela.”

Pro­posed leg­is­la­tion to reg­u­late the fire­works in­dus­try will re­quire per­sons to seek per­mits to dis­charge fire­works, ex­cept for pub­lic hol­i­days and De­cem­ber 31 - and fire­works will be re­strict­ed in cer­tain ar­eas, in­clud­ing near zoos, an­i­mal rear­ing fa­cil­i­ties and hos­pi­tals.

There are cur­rent­ly 97 po­lice of­fi­cers de­ployed on a per­ma­nent ba­sis across all 50 schools iden­ti­fied by the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry for School Ori­ent­ed Po­lice Unit (SOPU) of­fi­cers, ac­cord­ing to Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath.

Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram says there are al­ter­na­tive fer­tilis­ers that farm­ers can use as the Gov­ern­ment seeks to set­tle the on­go­ing dis­pute with Nu­trien.

The Unit­ed States South­ern Com­mand has do­nat­ed US$25,000 in ed­u­ca­tion­al equip­ment and sup­plies to Rox­bor­ough An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School, in an ini­tia­tive that sup­ports dig­i­tal lit­er­a­cy and im­proved learn­ing en­vi­ron­ments. The han­dover comes as there is con­fir­ma­tion that US marines are in To­ba­go fol­low­ing the in­stal­la­tion of a mil­i­tary radar on the is­land.

Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad says the coun­try can­not progress with­out lead­ers who act with in­tegri­ty and are pre­pared to make dif­fi­cult de­ci­sions for the com­mon good. He de­liv­ered the mes­sage at the MIP­SHA Pres­by­ter­ian Church as it cel­e­brat­ed its 152nd an­niver­sary.

A Pe­nal welder helped po­lice ar­rest three al­leged in­trud­ers on Fri­day af­ter they at­tempt­ed to en­ter his home and fired sev­er­al shots at him.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a La Brea land­lord af­ter a fire was set at a house at Sobo Cir­cu­lar Road on Fri­day.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says the gov­ern­ment is con­sid­er­ing every pos­si­ble com­mer­cial arrange­ment to restart the Pointe-à-Pierre re­fin­ery, in­clud­ing part­ner­ships with for­eign gov­ern­ments, in­ter­na­tion­al in­vestors and com­pa­nies that pre­vi­ous­ly bid for the as­set.

A Dow Vil­lage man man­aged to es­cape his ab­duc­tors hours af­ter two men forced their way in­to his home on Sat­ur­day night.

A 38-year-old man was found shot dead in the car park of a bar in Kel­ly Vil­lage ear­ly Sat­ur­day.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent hap­pened around 10.05 p.m. while he was tend­ing to his dog, which he be­lieved had been poi­soned. He told in­ves­ti­ga­tors that two men ap­proached him, and one, de­scribed as slim, about five feet eight inch­es tall, brown-skinned and wear­ing a dark hood­ie and black trousers, point­ed a firearm at him and said, “this is a rob­bery, car­ry me in­side.”